Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base

Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by Kbelicius on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:33AM (#50391081)

> Sounds like a pretty good reason. Maybe there should have be exemptions for open-weight models?

Article 2.12: "This Regulation does not apply to AI systems released under free and open-source licences, unless they are placed on the market or put into service as high-risk AI systems or as an AI system that falls under Article 5 or 50."

So there is some exemption.

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by londons_explore on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:41AM (#50391164)

When you're the engineer responsible for releasing an AI model at baidu, and one checklist item is 'check for local laws and either exclude that country or get a local lawyer to check for compliance', it is probably easier to just exclude any country with specific AI laws than to hire 200+ lawyers to meet every countries laws.

This applies even more so when revenue from the model release is likely nil. You will get the academic fame and PR no matter what the licence says.

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